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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!"

Thinking America Class
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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession."

Thinking Ems Dull
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality."

Thinking Mistake Knowing
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them."

People Thinking Rooms
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life."

Thinking Men Forever
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Thinking

"If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death"

Thinking Lines Video
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level."

Thinking World Ideas
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence."

People Thinking Differences
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom."

Thinking Ideas Balance
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."

People Thinking Zoos
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated."

People Thinking Science
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history."

Thinking Fate Other Worlds
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Thinking

"There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth."

Thinking Years Mars
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